Monthly Archives: November 2019

BET ON CRAZY / The Blue Diamond Affair

November 7, 2019 – 11:05 am

In the autumn of 2008 Richie Boy opened our jewelry store in the Plaza Hotel’s Retail Collection. I thought we were going to coin a fortune. The Plaza was a legend. Rich people stayed there. It didn’t take me long to see a disaster looming on the horizon. The American economy was in the can […]

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Liar Liar

November 4, 2019 – 10:16 pm

This evening a friend accused me on lying. He was backing another friend’s accusation of my misrepresenting the truth in the telling a story about skating on black ice. Both said that I had claimed to have skated up 2nd Avenue after an ice storm had glazed Manhattan with black ice. Neither had ever worn […]

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Fuck The NCAA Especially for Football

November 4, 2019 – 4:22 pm

ESPN posted a story about the hundred and fifty greatest NCAA college football games of all time. No. 1 Nebraska 35, at No. 2 Oklahoma 31 Nov. 25, 1971 The Sooners and Huskers presented Americans with a Thanksgiving feast: 829 yards of total offense, four lead changes, only one penalty and a game billed as […]

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The Umpteenth Coming by Peter Nolan Smith

November 4, 2019 – 2:43 pm

In the summer of 1971 my three friends and I tripped on LSD in White Mountains. the window pane was fierce. A twelve year-old emerged from the forest. For a minute almost believed he was Jesus, but his name was Jessie from Bethel NH Music by Doug henderson ex-drummer of Spongehead Vortex sound sculpture by […]

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The War Is Not Over

November 4, 2019 – 2:59 am

President Eisenhower had prevented the USA from becoming involved in the Vietnamese civil war. He was a military man who understood that the military-industrial complex was only interested in profits as well as the logistic strain of transporting troops and weapons halfway around the world to fight support the despised Diem dictatorship. Unfortunately after the […]

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